hiragana

n. one of two standard syllabaries associated with the Japanese writing system

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana and kanji; the Latin alphabet is also used in some cases. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each symbol represents one mora. Each kana is either a vowel (such as a ); a consonant followed by a vowel (such as ka ); or n , a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng , or like the nasal vowels of French.
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n. Hiragana, one of two standard syllabaries associated with the Japanese writing system

n. hiragana, one of two standard syllabaries associated with the Japanese writing system

<Japanese> The cursive formed Japanese kana syllabary. Hiragana is mostly used for grammatical particles, verb-inflection, and Japanese words which are not written in kanji or which are too difficult for an educated person to read or write in kanji. Hiragana are also used for furigana.
(2001-03-18)

Hiragana